Fire doused at HPCL Visakh Refinery
The Hindu
There was no casualty or injury to any person or employees and all in the vicinity were evacuated well in time
A major disaster was averted at HPCL Visakh Refinery, when a fire broke out at the crude distillery unit number 3, in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday. As per the commissioner of police Manish Kumar Sinha, there was no casualty or injury to any person or employees and all in the vicinity were evacuated well in time. The fire was doused off within an hour, he said. As per the initial assessment by the disaster management department of HPCL, the fire broke out around 3.10 p.m. when an overhead electrical line caught fire, probably due to overheating, and this might have led to the fire in the distillery unit below that contained naphtha.
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